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Ayr Academy's catchment area covers Newton-on-Ayr, Whitletts and the outlying villages of Coylton, Annbank, and Mossblown. Ayr Academy is one of the schools in South Ayrshire with high levels of economic deprivation and disadvantage, with more pupils attending Ayr Academy from deprived backgrounds than most other schools in the area. [3] [4]
The academy did not enter the Scottish Cup, but there were close links with the Ayr Eglinton club, which was formed in 1875. From the Ayr Academy cricket side, the King brothers [4] played for Eglinton in the 1875–76 Scottish Cup, and of the XI which played against the Ayr Volunteers in the 1875–76 season, [5] two players (Sliman and Reid) played for Eglinton in the 1875–76 Cup, and ...
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He was born on 12 February 1857 the son of Robert Wright, a tenant farmer of Downan Farm near Ballantrae in Ayrshire, one of eight siblings.He was educated at Ayr Academy, then undertook formal training at the University of Edinburgh under Prof John Wilson.
William Wightman Beveridge (27 November 1858 – 26 January 1941) was a Scottish footballer and track and field athlete.. A Scottish athletics sprint champion born in Cumnock, Ayrshire, and educated at Ayr Academy, Beveridge was capped three times by the Scotland national football team between 1879 and 1880 while studying at the University of Glasgow and playing for Glasgow University F.C.
He was born in Craigie, South Ayrshire in 1776 and educated at Ayr Academy achieving high honours in mathematics. In 1794 he went to work as an engineer for Messrs George Houston & Co on Johnstone. There, in 1798 he invented a system of heating premises by steam ( a precursor to central heating).
He married Marian, from Ayr. One of his sons would be William Allan McWhirter, born in 1889, who became the editor of the Sunday Pictorial (later to become the Sunday Mirror ), and managing director from 1944-50 of Associated Newspapers .
The side included at least 5 players who had played for Ayr Academy F.C. in friendlies the previous season, [6] 4 of whom had played in the academy side which beat Eglinton 2–0 in November 1875. [7] The replay was played on 7 October at the neutral Robbsland Park (the ground of Ayr Thistle F.C.) and lasted only an hour, St Andrew's winning 1 ...